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It was the new year of 1989. The Jana Natya Manch (JANAM) was performing a play, Halla Bol, in support of Ramanand Jha, CPI[M] candidate for the post of councilor in Ghaziabad. The play began at around 11am near Ambedkar Park before an eager crowd. Minutes into the play, Mukesh Sharma, the Congress opponent ot Jha made an unscripted entry into the scene. He demanded that the play be stopped and he and his entourage be allowed to pass through. The director of the play, Safdar Hashmi informed Sharma to either wait or take an alternative route as the play was already in progress.

Revolutionary artists are a particularly unlucky lot, in that they typically die twice. First, a biological death, usually penniless and persecuted. Then, second time around, a slow methodical political assassination - wherein they are celebrated as a “creative genius and dreamer out of touch with reality”, appropriated into a “national treasure” and, of course, their creative output commoditized by media corporations into special edition albums, books, posters, coffee mugs and foundations.

There have been many attempts to theorize the role of pleasure in culture, they vary immensely, but all share the desire to divide pleasure into two …one of which they applaud, and the other they deplore.
– John Fiske, Understanding Popular Culture

Ali Miller is an artist who works from home and does artwork on household ceramics and bags. Miller has been selling a teapot with picture map of UK for about a year without much success. It happened to appear in a crucial scene in season finale of second season of BBC series Sherlock and the orders for the teapot started flooding in. And now there is a waiting list to order one. It is just one example of the popularity of the hit TV series Sherlock, which has concluded its second season in the US.

Red Army photographer Yevgeni Khaldei's historic photograph of the Soviet flag being raised over the Reichstag atop the crown of the Germania. The flag is being raised by Alyosha Kovalyov, in a re-enactment of the event of April 30th 1945.Source:[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/)

An urban legend goes like this:
A patient visits a psychiatrist to cure his depression. And the doctor asks the patient to watch a Charlie Chaplin film every day. To which the patient replies, “I am Charlie Chaplin”.

Every resistance puts forward a challenge to the existing order. And arts are no exception to this challenge. It eventually becomes the duty of every progressive resistance to mould art in its own image so as to produce works that will in turn shape the future; works that invigorate the people to cast away the chains of slavery, works that embolden ordinary people to resist invading armies, works that thrash the deities of ignorance, works that topple the thrones of tyranny, works that question the diktats of bygone eras, works that unfurl the banners of liberation.